What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven